Guest Post by TONY KURIAN

Amidst the noisy campaigns of “Make In India and Digital India”, a campaign called “Accessible India” was launched by the Central Government recently and unsurprisingly this did not catch much media attention. Department of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has launched the Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan), as a nation-wide flagship campaign for achieving universal accessibility for Persons with Disabilities.

The campaign is an extremely welcome initiative in a country like India which is home to more than 2.1 million officiallyrecognized disabled and a lot more who are not counted by the decadal exercise of census. While the campaign disserves much appreciation, it offers an appropriate opportunity for us to rethink some of our common sense, or at least that of majority about disability and disabled. Continue reading Can accessibility alone create an inclusive society for persons with disability? Tony Kurian →